Best way to pull a "side-grade"?

[Peter N. Spotts]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:41:47 +0100
"Eamonn Sullivan" <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/2/06, Peter N. Spotts <pspotts at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Have I just coined a term? Anyway, after my on-line upgrade this
> > morning from 5.10 to 6.06, (the smoothest upgrade I've ever
> > experienced! -- after running RH, Mandrake, and SuSE) I noticed an
> > XFCE version of Ubuntu. Is there a way to shift "sideways" from the
> > Gnome version to the XFCE version without doing a clean install? I
> > suspect the answer will be no, but maybe someone a lot smarter than
> > I am has figured out how to do it...
> 
> It shouldn't be hard:
> 
> sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
> 
> But, note, that I haven't done this, and I suspect a fair amount of
> packages will have to be downloaded, but certainly less than your
> 5.10->6.06 upgrade.
> 
> -Eamonn
> 

But will that remove the gnome stuff? Or just install XFCE along side
gnome?

Pete

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